J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Yacht under Sail, Perhaps off Cowes 1827

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Yacht under Sail, Perhaps off Cowes’ 1827
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Yacht under Sail, Perhaps off Cowes 1827
D20892
Turner Bequest CCXXVIII 32
Gouache and pencil on blue wove paper, 141 x 193 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram below right of centre
Stamped in black ‘CCCCVIII 32’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is among dozens of blue paper studies presumably made in connection with the Cowes Regatta events in the late summer of 1827; see the Introduction to this subsection for other generic harbour and coastal scenes. The lightly indicated background may be the shoreline at Cowes, placing the yacht at the entrance to the River Medina.
As noted in the Introduction, the present work and thirty-four other sheets were recorded in Finberg’s 1909 Inventory as unmounted, and ‘formed part of [a] parcel’ labelled by John Ruskin ‘O. 232. Chalk scrawls on grey. Rubbish.’1
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Finberg 1909, II, p.702.
Verso:
Blank; inscribed in pencil ‘232 | O’ top left, upside down; inscribed in pencil ‘CCXXVIII . 32’ bottom right.

Matthew Imms
November 2015

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Yacht under Sail, Perhaps off Cowes 1827 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-yacht-under-sail-perhaps-off-cowes-r1183425, accessed 26 April 2024.